Jazz Everyone - Online Jazz LessonsYo, I just wanted to welcome you to my website for learning jazz improvisation, http://www.jazzeveryone.com. My name is Willie Thomas and I've been playing jazz for over 60 years. To find our more about me, my unique method which will get you to the heart of the jazz language, and to get your FREE Lesson, drop on by.

Impro-Visor (free software for the improviser) Impro-Visor is a free software tool for helping improvisers work out solos in the form of leadsheets. It has auto-accompaniment based on chord changes. Licks can be saved in a database and recalled. It will also generate licks on its own. The website is http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor

7-Zip is a great (free) compression utility for those of you stuck with Windows built-in snail-speed zipper. Install it and then it will show up in the context menu (right-click). Way faster for zipping up a directory full of files. Get it here: http://www.7-zip.org/

Jazz Arranging course by Chuck IsraelsChuck Israels' course on arranging for jazz, "Exploring Jazz Arranging", which is used at Juilliard, is online at Northern Sounds: http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=107
As with the Rimsky-Korsakov course, there are real-time examples, like the following:

Transcription Tool - Amazing Slow DownerThe ability to slow down a phrase for transcription is available on many packages, but most that I've heard introduce artifacts at some point. The AmazingSlowDowner has a mode, Slow Down Type IV, which does an outstanding job of slowing the music and NOT introducing the Lost In Space sound. Check it out:
http://www.ronimusic.com/

Ear TrainingFor online ear training (and a music theory resource), the following is great:
http://musictheory.net/

For a standalone applications, the Functional Ear Trainer is pretty nice:
http://www.miles.be

and the GNU Solfege is great:
http://www.solfege.org/

But at least for me, one of the best opportunities to listen is in the car, where neither of the above are available. I also thought that having an aural answer to whatever ear training challenge was presented would be nice (so you don't need to look at the title for the answer). The solution seemed to be mp3s of intervals, chords, etc., so I wrote a little program to create these, and below is a zipped up folder of a sample of these. Each file is an interval, followed by a pause, then the answer as a major scale fragment, with any alteration to the interval as a downward step at the end of the scale fragment.

You can download them and put em on your iPod or burn em to a mp3 cd, and do some eyes-free ear training.